Buckle.



A. A. GREENE.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION man MAYzs. |917.

1,265,324, l Y Patented May 7,1918.

. ria sArEs rfrrfr FFME AUGUSTUS A. GREENE, 0E PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

BUCKLE. a

7b a7? whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS A GREENE, a citizen of the United-States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Buckles, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in abuckle and more particularly to a buckle embodying a locket construction.

The primary object resides in an improved locket-buckle having a pocket for the reception of a. photograph, or other identification, and a hingedly mounted niedallion closable over the pocket and retained in such position by a cover member.

The invention further resides in the features of construction and the arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the proved locket-buckle.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line 2-2 of I` ig. 1, showing the cover and medallion members in dotted lines in their .opened positions.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a Slightly modified form of the invention, and

Fig. A is a longitudinal section therethrough on line 4% of Fig. 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral l designates the front plate iinof the body of the buckley and 2 the sidey flanges which have the inclined cam slots 3 to slidably receive the belt-clamping bar 4. A belt securing member 5 is also pivoted between the side iianges 2 to which the fixed end of the belt, not shown, is secured.

In the front face of thek body plate 1 is depressed or formed a pocket 6 in which may bel placed a photograph, or other identiiication 7, the same being retained beneath a transparent covering 8 by a frame 9. The pocket is sufliciently .deep so that when the photograph, the transparent covering and retaining frame are properly positioned therein a shallow recess will be left within the pocket for the reception of the medallion or emblem carrying member 10. A closure or cover 11 is hinged to the body plate to one side of the pocket, as at 12, to fiatly engage the outer or front face of said plate and completely inclose the medallion and cover the pocket. A catch 13 is carried by l Specication of Letters Patent.

- 16 which connects the medallion to its hinge knuckle 17, said knuckle beingmounted on the hinge pin that connects the cover to the body plate. The cover is preferably finished with a beveled border and has a knob or lift 18 extending from its free edge to facilitate opening of the locket.

The central hinged medallion may bear configurations of any desired character, as of a religious or fraternal nature, the same being suitably impressed thereon. The pocket setting into the body plate is closed by the hinged medallion and the latter is held within said pocket by the hinged cover. In the modification, the locket pocket eX- tends practically the entire area of the front plate and the cover 20 is hinged at one side and constitutes the front of the buckle. In this construction, the design of the pocket is rectangular, the medallion member conforming thereto and the recess in the cover being correspondingly contoured receives the medallion.

In either form, the buckle Still retains its simple outline with practically noL projections, and the locket is embodied within the outline of the buckle in a novel and prac-y of and formed with a recess registering with the pocket, said front face and cover having opposing grooves leading from their respective depressions to the hinge mounting of the cover and an emblem-carrying leaf fitting the pocket and registering cover recess and provided with a radial wing lying in the opposing grooves and formed with a hinge knuckle for pivotally mounting the leaf to the cover mounting.

2. A member having a pocket set in its front face and adapted to receive a photograph, a retaining frame in the pocket, a cover for the pocket hinged at one side thereof, and formed with a recess register- Patented May '7, 1918. Application led May 26, 1917.' Seria1No.`171,267.

@over recess ing with the pocket, said front face and their respective depressions to the hinge mounting of the cover, and an emblem-'Car'- rying leaf fitting the pocket and registering and formed with :L hinge knuckle seating 1n the grooves and pivotally connected to the cover mounting.

3. A locket comprising a buckle body having a pocket formed i-n its Jfront for receiving et photograph, it cover hinged to the buckle front on one side of the pocket and ytwo subscribing. Witnesses.

AUGUSTUS A. GREENE.

lVitnesses ADA E. HAGERTY, Jr A., Mmmm Ccpies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

- Washington., D. C. 

